Previous cleverhack posts about these sites can be found here and here.

Not too long ago, Ben Edelman posted an article examining the trustworthiness of sites certified by site certification authorities - most notably TRUSTe. His methodology included cross-referencing TRUSTe’s ratings with the findings of SiteAdvisor - and finding that TRUSTe certified some sites that SiteAdvisor did not rate as trustworthy. These findings should be considered when thinking about purchasing a site certification seal for your site or using a site with a certification seal. (And yes, I will admit my bias - of being on the Web for so long to dislike anything trying to show “trust” - against these seals…)

An easy peasy post to start off the morning about two unknown search tools I’ve been seeing in the logs.

First is scroogle.org which basically acts as a proxy between you and Google. The cachet is that Google can’t track you if you use the scroogle.org service. I see less than 10 referrers from there every few days. Also, scroogle dot com, uh, redirects you to a very not safe for work search engine. You have been warned.

Gridwell is a beta search engine based in the UK. The search engine appears to be a consultancy project and it looks like they’re just getting their feet wet trying out site SERP design ideas such as showing site favicons with results. Their results, as of this writing, are from Yahoo. Here’s the about page for the gridwell search service.

This is the “Friday afternoon and I am going to crawl into bed after a late night last night update”.

I can say that I am currently fat and happy at the moment.

Last week consisted of running to the hospital to visit and be outspoken to nurses. Burst appendixes with a touch of infected wound (not mine, but a lapsed blogger) are very painful. And it can take down a healthy person who has hobbies such as, oh, participating in triathalons.

Fantasy Football - week 6 saw me win my matchup and wind up in second place for the league. Santana Moss actually played well. The Eagles Saints game was painful since I had Carney as my kicker but I was hoping the Eagles would win. As it turns out, the Eagles lost to a Carney field goal. Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward played his best game so far this season. Suffice it to say, I had dropped him last week.

I’m going into week 7 without a kicker though (no drop/add this week).

Fantasy Football week 5 - if I dump that player, of course they go on to do well for someone else. Between last week and this week I have drop/add the following. I’ve been using this season’s stats to determine who I want.

Westbrook is questionable again because of his knee, and from what I’m seeing he may not play. The Eagles have been very unreliable wrt their injury reports. I may get a change of heart, but I don’t know.

Update: Green was declared inactive by Green Bay just before the game…and I didn’t catch that (!!!). Oh, and reportedly, Westbrook is facing surgery.

A few months ago I wrote up a post about how I found some very shifty results on Google search engine result pages. At the time, I found some pages that were essentially mockups of Google SERPs. These pages were all on a .info TLD, had an iframe linking to a website called cleansearch.info and had numerous of links at the bottom of each mocked up page linking to other mocked up .info pages. I couldn’t figure out why someone would go through all of that trouble.

Ok, ok, I’m down by…30 points… If I had played Santana Moss, I would have been at least closer. And had the foreknowledge that Thomas Jones would have had a great day yesterday…well, I would have had a much better week.

LaDainian only clocked in with 9pts. The Seahawks defense was stomped. And of course, Westbrook’s injury wasn’t announced until just before the game and my other productive running back, Ahman Green was announced as injured late last week.